Improvement in cutlery



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

HENRY T. REEVES, OF BEAVER FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUTLERV.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,774, dated November 7, 1871; antedated November 1, 1871.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY T. REEVES, of Beaver Falls, in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Table-Cutlery; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional view of my improved handle along the face of the bifurcated tang. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the handle through x fr, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an end view thereof. Fig. 4 is a butt-end view of the handle complete.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in each.

My improvement relates more particularly to the making of handles of articles of table-cutlery, whereby a cheap but substantial article is produced of improved construction.

To enable oth ers skilled in the art to make and use my improvement, I will explain its construction.

The knife-blade b is made in any of the ways known to the art, but with a double or bifurcated tang, a. This double tang is a little shorter than the handle to be made. 0n the inside of the outer end of each halftang is an inwardly-projecting hook or barb, c, and on the outside the end is beveled or shouldered off, as at c. The

handle d, made of any suitable material, is grooved along each edge with a groove just large enough to receive one of the halftangs a, and also grooved around its outer or butt end to receive a metal casting, f. The double tang a is then spread apart and slipped along the grooves of the handled to its position, till the hooks c are a little beyond the body of the handle. The whole is then inclosed in a properly-shaped mold and the casting fis then cast into the groove previously made in the end of the handle d, such metal running in above the hooks c, as shown at s, whereby the casting f andhandle d are prevented from coming ofi. This casting f also covers the outer ends of the half-tangs a, illing into the shoulders or recesses c, so as to keep the half-tangs from spreading and so becoming loosened. rlhe handle is then finished up inthe usual way. A bolster may be cast onto the end of the handle at the base of the blade, if so desired.

This construction of handle is cheap, and enables me to produce a knife or other like article of table cutlery neat in appearance, durable, and of small cost. The use of scales and rivets is wholly obviated.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bifureated tang a a, made with barbs c and recesses c, in combination with a handle grooved on both edges and the end, and a cast filling, f, such filling entering the end groove of the handle covering the ends of the tangs and engaging the hooks or barbs c, as at s, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I, the said HENRY T. REEVES, have hereunto set my hand.

HENRY T. REEVES.

Witnesses:

A. S. NICHOLSON, 

